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Nicaise Ndembi1, Salim S Abdool Karim2
1Nicaise Ndembi is the Africa mpox incident manager for the Continental Preparedness and Response Plan, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 3, 2024
Resumen
La nueva variante de mpox (variante de la viruela del mono) clade Ib se está extendiendo globalmente, con casos reportados en la India y otros países. Se necesitan medidas urgentes para contener esta cepa altamente transmisible, especialmente en África, para prevenir una posible pandemia.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Virología
- Epidemiología
- Salud pública
Sus antecedentes:
- El surgimiento de una variante del clado Ib mpox altamente transmisible representa un importante desafío para la salud mundial.
- Los recientes brotes de mpox, incluida una emergencia de salud pública declarada en África, destacan el potencial del virus para propagarse rápidamente.
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